1190: "Time"

[azule]

I almost think releasing frames slow enough to keep up with might make me just as crazy as too fast to keep up. Mountain/volcano/alien reference. *shrug*

It was a bit disappointing to see the frame is still only updating every hour.

Glad I only had to go back a page to find this info. Main reason I logged in this morning. *yawn* Hope that mound finishes soon...

Yay, I was helpful! BTW, ExplainXKCD has it broken down by hour if you want to see how things are progressing.

I see it. The water has risen a little bit. Formerly grey pixels on the waterline are now totally black. Although it's weird that Megan didn't move.

Something is WRONG! That just doesn't make any sense. She should move if the water moves!

[buffygirl]

My next hat! [ic call this AionArap-Green Hat]

Previous Hats:

Spoiler:

Roundcap Hat Baseball hatBorgias-1 Hat
Cowboy Hat Borgias-2 Hat AionArap-Green Hat

AionArap-Green Hat

500full-forhat3-ALL HATS-from-AionArap-smlr.jpg (5.72 KiB) Viewed 18188 times

[mscha]

This shows the sea level rise since just after the first zoom&pan, 140-ish newp⁠іx ago (or 4 days and 4 hours on the Outside)․ The second pan w⁠as horizontal only, so ca⁠n be ignored for this purpose․
As always: green pixels w⁠ere added, red removed․


ETfix image URL

[azule]

[AionArap]

My next hat! [ic call this AionArap-Green Hat]

Previous Hats:

Spoiler:

Roundcap Hat Baseball hatBorgias-1 Hat
Cowboy Hat Borgias-2 Hat AionArap-Green Hat

500full-forhat3-ALL HATS-from-AionArap-smlr.jpg

Yeah, I knew a fascist like you would like the Mussolini hat

[Smithers]

Couldn't keep going and had to coma for a few hours. Curse the imperfection of my physical outsider form. I notice the number of people viewing this thread has picked up a bit, although the post rate is still pretty slow.

Of course, it'd be trivial to adjust the update frequency periodically so that an finite number of nеwpix last an arbitrarily long period of external timе.

In other words: уou could wait here forever.

Arbitrarily long, yes. Forever, no. With a finite number, n, of frames, the last one must display at some given time, or else it never displays and therefore doesn't count as a frame at all, hence we only really have n-1 frames. This allows an indiction down to 1 frame, the base case exhibited by almost all xkcd strips.
Related, there must be a finite number of frames, as each is identified by a 256-bit value. Although end of the universe places a tighter bound than that.

[buffygirl]

Just coming back from an break to say congratulations on eower inauguration (?( Helper and to reassure eow that ic woll personally email Randall if eow get blocked. the angry dome needs to ken the answer to these questions!

Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu!

Wraithlord, the Anti-Pope

Looks at Wraithlord suspiciously, I do not recall you being elected - - - Thus, We need to hold a vote! We need to ratify our Anti-Pope!
http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Timewaiters#Anti-Pope

[(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻]

I thought he'd just gone and awarded himself the title, like a supervillain would.
what's the utility of an anti-pope?

[bigcrag92]

Just coming back from an break to say congratulations on eower inauguration (?( Helper and to reassure eow that ic woll personally email Randall if eow get blocked. the angry dome needs to ken the answer to these questions!

Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu!

Wraithlord, the Anti-Pope

Looks at Wraithlord suspiciously, ic do not recall eow being elected - - - Thus, We need to hold an vote! We need to ratify our Anti-Pope!
http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Timewaiters#Anti-Pope

another vote? but there arn't any other candidates...
I think you just like voting

[buffygirl]

My next hat! [ic call this AionArap-Green Hat]

Previous Hats:

Spoiler:

Roundcap Hat Baseball hatBorgias-1 Hat
Cowboy Hat Borgias-2 Hat AionArap-Green Hat

Yeah, ic ken-did an fascist like eow woll-did like the Mussolini hat ;(

THBBBT. It's only cuz you gave it to me. Also, re the image: FTFY (still working on all this stuff with attachments and images)
EDIT: Ok, I admit it, I didn't realize it was a Mussolini hat. Wait till you see it in red!

[StratPlayer]

Accck!!!

ic stumbled and strayed in my faithfulness to The an True Comic, and allowed real-life to intrude over the weekend. When last ic read, this needle-pulled thing be-did [ic]only[/ic] 120 pages long.

ic give up. ic surrender to Thing that keeps slippin' (slippin', slippin'( into the future. It hath slipped into the future and now ic'm hopelessly lost in the past.

Perhaps this woll help:

http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/

Of course -- invaluable. Thank eow. But there be still the fact that ic must concede defeat at being able to catch up and actually read the 70+ pages of tom-foolery, gobbledygook, and entertaining RECKONING that ic missed.

it be all still there. Open an second tab where eow be-did, catch up reading there while eow wait for it in this tab.

ic be-am doing this. In spite of my conceded defeat, ic trudge ahead -- it be just not enough fun to miss. ic tin't stop laughing at the collision of the 'normal' base insanity of this needle-pulled thing and the mod-fuck of THE RECKONING. not enough fun!

I call a do-over on my concession of defeat. It took many long newpix, or maybe many new longpix, but I made it through every post, now bringing my score regarding this entire thread to:

Posts Read: 100%
Posts Laughed at: 75%
Posts I'd wished I'd been around to offer a reply to: 50%
Posts I'd wished I'd made myself: 15%
Posts that seemed rational and sane: 0.3%

[kryton]

ic reckon-did he'd just go-done and awarded himself the title, like an supervillain woll-did.
hwæt's the utility of an anti-pope?

makes sence to me

[buffygirl]

Just coming back from an break to say congratulations on eower inauguration (?( Helper and to reassure eow that ic woll personally email Randall if eow get blocked. the angry dome needs to ken the answer to these questions!

Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu!

Wraithlord, the Anti-Pope

Looks at Wraithlord suspiciously, ic do not recall eow being elected - - - Thus, We need to hold an vote! We need to ratify our Anti-Pope!
http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Timewaiters#Anti-Pope

another vote? but there arn't ænig other candidates.FULL STOPFULL STOP
ic reckon eow just like voting

Uhhhhh - - -

ic reckon-did he'd just go-done and awarded himself the title, like an supervillain woll-did.
hwæt's the utility of an anti-pope?

maketh sence to me

*shrugs* okies. Somebody's gotta change it on the wiki though!

[AionArap]

My next hat! [ic call this AionArap-Green Hat]

Previous Hats:

Spoiler:

Roundcap Hat Baseball hatBorgias-1 Hat
Cowboy Hat Borgias-2 Hat AionArap-Green Hat

Yeah, ic ken-did an fascist like eow woll-did like the Mussolini hat ;(

THBBBT. it be only cuz eow gave it to me. Also, re the image: FTFY (still working on all this stuff with attachments and images)
EDIT: all correct, ic admit it, ic didn't realize it be-did an Mussolini hat. Wait till eow see it in red!

Hehe, i figured as much.
But it kinda all makes sense now, with you weilding one half of the fascist symbol in your pic there, the other half of course being (quite appropriately i might add) a Faggot, which we all know is a vampire slayers most imprtant tool.

EDIT: Adding link

[bigcrag92]

Just coming back from an break to say congratulations on eower inauguration (?( Helper and to reassure eow that ic woll personally email Randall if eow get blocked. the angry dome needs to ken the answer to these questions!

Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu!

Wraithlord, the Anti-Pope

Looks at Wraithlord suspiciously, ic do not recall eow being elected - - - Thus, We need to hold an vote! We need to ratify our Anti-Pope!
http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Timewaiters#Anti-Pope

another vote? but there arn't ænig other candidates.FULL STOPFULL STOP
ic reckon eow just like voting

Uhhhhh - - -

ic reckon-did he'd just go-done and awarded himself the title, like an supervillain woll-did.
hwæt's the utility of an anti-pope?

maketh sence to me

*shrugs* okies. Somebody's gotta change it on the wiki though!

Ok we can vote, i vote for wraithlord

[azule]

Hum. According to my title, I'm Saved. Did I somehow join the rank of worshiper of davean due to my praise of him/her/it/Lord?

Related, there must be a finite number of frames, as each is identified by a 256-bit value. Although end of the universe places a tighter bound than that.

That would also mean that as we approach the end of time, and as the available pool of hashes depletes, we can start to predict [guess] the future!

Edit: For bad editing.

[rmsgrey]

ic reckon-did he'd just go-done and awarded himself the title, like an supervillain woll-did.
hwæt's the utility of an anti-pope?

An anti-Pope lets you cancel out a Pope...

[Valarya]

Who else has been singing the goddamn Steve Miller Band all day long?

[azule]

It took many long newpix, or maybe many new longpix, but I made it through every post, now bringing my score regarding this entire thread to:

Posts Read: 100%
Posts Laughed at: 75%
Posts I'd wished I'd been around to offer a reply to: 50%
Posts I'd wished I'd made myself: 15%
Posts that seemed rational and sane: 0.3%

Woot! I'm a 100%er too. We should start an exclusive club. It will make it easier for the loony police to find us.

Rational and sane posts can't be that high. By virtue of being here at all...yep, it could be around 0.01%±0.01

[DonJaime]

Of course, it'd be trivial to adjust the update frequency periodically so that an finite number of nеwpix last an arbitrarily long period of external timе.

In other words: уou could wait here forever.

Arbitrarily long, yes. Forever, no. With an finite number, n, of frames, the last one must display at some given timе, or else it never displays and therefore doth not count as an frame at all, hence we only really have n-1 frames.

With anу finite series of nеwpix уou cannοt unambiguously identify the slow-down function. So уou never knοw if the last frame wаs n or n-1. The only way to tell іs to wait and see if another onе comеs.

[buffygirl]

Just coming back from an break to say congratulations on eower inauguration (?( Helper and to reassure eow that ic woll personally email Randall if eow get blocked. the angry dome needs to ken the answer to these questions!
Ïa Ran'dall! Ïa Cthulhu!
Wraithlord, the Anti-Pope

Looks at Wraithlord suspiciously, ic do not recall eow being elected - - - Thus, We need to hold an vote! We need to ratify our Anti-Pope!
http://xkcd-time.wikia.com/wiki/Timewaiters#Anti-Pope

another vote? but there arn't ænig other candidates.FULL STOPFULL STOP
ic reckon eow just like voting

Uhhhhh - - -

ic reckon-did he'd just go-done and awarded himself the title, like an supervillain woll-did.
hwæt's the utility of an anti-pope?

maketh sence to me

*shrugs* okies. Somebody's gotta change it on the wiki though!

all correct we tin vote, ic vote for wraithlord

Me too. [even though, by rights, I agree with Fantastic Idea that the Anti-Pope could probably ratify himself, being a villian and all]- So we have a new Anti-Pope! Who recites the benediction? Aw hell, I'll just do it.

*bows her head solemnly, then looks out at the crowd as she raises her arms* All Gather for the Ratification of Wraithlord, Anti-Pope of the Timewaiters of the One True Comic. All know that darkness must balance light, anti-matter must balance matter, coffee must balance semencancerbabies, and the Anti-Pope must balance our Pope, the wise and epicly weird Pope Helper the First. With such thusness, by the power invested in me as Arch-Cardinal, and in the name of Randall, Overlord of us All, I hereby ratify Wraithlord as our first Anti-Pope. Fear him. *she drops her arms and gives Wraithlord his own funny hat.*

EDIT: Fixed anti-villian reference to accurately credit Fantastic Idea rather than kryton. Sorry!

[AionArap]

It took many long fortnight, or maybe many new longpix, but ic made it through æfre stake, now bringing my score regarding this entire needle-pulled thing to:

Posts Read: 100%
Posts Laughed at: 75%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd been around to offer an reply to: 50%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd made myself: 15%
Posts that seemed rational and sane: 0.3%

Woot! ic'm an 100%er too. We should start an exclusive club. It will make it easier for the loony police to find us.

Rational and sane posts tin't be that high. By virtue of being here at all.FULL STOP.yep, it could be around 0.01%±0.01

Are you sure you're at 100%?
I've been through every single page myself as well, but to really get to 100% you'd have to go through most of them again to catch all the late entries from first posters waiting for approval.

[Helper]

whose innermost essence else hath been singing the goddamn Steve Miller Band all day long?

Me.

[NoMouse]

This shows the sea level rise since just after the first zoom&pan, 140-ish newp⁠іx ago (or 4 days and 4 hours on the Outside)․ The second pan w⁠as horizontal only, so ca⁠n be ignored for this purpose․
As always: green pixels w⁠ere added, red removed․

Wow, that looks like 3D version.

[Helper]

So, has anybody managed to catch salmonella while I was gone?

[lassehp]

It took many long fortnight, or maybe many new longpix, but ic made it through æfre stake, now bringing my score regarding this entire needle-pulled thing to:

Posts Read: 100%
Posts Laughed at: 75%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd been around to offer an reply to: 50%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd made myself: 15%
Posts that seemed rational and sane: 0.3%

Woot! ic'm an 100%er too. We should start an exclusive club. It will make it easier for the loony police to find us.

Rational and sane posts tin't be that high. By virtue of being here at all.FULL STOP.yep, it could be around 0.01%±0.01

Í concur. No way have there been over 20 sane posts in this object made of spun fibers. (fun spibers?)

/Lasse
\trying to beat the demons at their own game\

[azule]

Are you sure you're at 100%?
I've been through every single page myself as well, but to really get to 100% you'd have to go through most of them again to catch all the late entries from first posters waiting for approval.

Hmm. I th​ink we meant 100% of pages. Damn newbie ninja po​sts, confounded!

[StratPlayer]

It took many long fortnight, or maybe many new longpix, but ic made it through æfre stake, now bringing my score regarding this entire needle-pulled thing to:

Posts Read: 100%
Posts Laughed at: 75%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd been around to offer an reply to: 50%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd made myself: 15%
Posts that seemed rational and sane: 0.3%

Woot! ic'm an 100%er too. We should start an exclusive club. It will make it easier for the loony police to find us.

Rational and sane posts tin't be that high. By virtue of being here at all.FULL STOP.yep, it could be around 0.01%±0.01

be eow sure eow be at 100%?
ic have been through æfre single page myself as well, but to really get to 100% eow'd have to go through most of them again to catch all the late entries from first posters waiting for approval.

Good point. I've been lagging the real-time posting and reading well after the fact for most of this thread so I don't think I've missed too many, but there have been times (especially last week) when I thought I was 'current', so I probably did miss some retroactive post-approval posts.

Ok, so given the 8200+ posts in this thread, I'd guess I missed maybe 25 at max, so that's a 0.3% margin of error. And that would bring the 'Rational and Sane' level down to the much-more-likely 0.0%.

So I'm a 100%er (+/- 0.3%)!

[digimuzik]

It took many long fortnight, or maybe many new longpix, but ic made it through æfre post, now bringing my score regarding this entire needle-pulled thing to:

Posts Read: 100%
Posts Laughed at: 75%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd been around to offer an reply to: 50%
Posts ic'd wished ic'd made myself: 15%
Posts that seemed rational and sane: 0.3%

Woot! ic'm an 100%er too. We should start an exclusive club. It will make it easier for the loony police to find us.

Rational and sane posts can't is/be that high. By virtue of being here at all...yep, it could is/be around 0.01%±0.01

is/be eow sure eow is/be at 100%?
ic have been through æfre single page myself as well, but to really get to 100% eow'd have to go through most of them again to catch all the late entries from first posters waiting for approval.

Good point. ic have been lagging the real-time posting and reading well after the fact for most of this needle-pulled thing so ic don't reckon ic have missed too many, but there have been times (especially last week) when ic mad ic was 'current', so ic probably did miss some retroactive post-approval posts.

all correct, so given the 8200+ posts in this needle-pulled thing, ic'd guess ic missed maybe 25 at max, so that is/be an 0.3% margin of error. And that could bring the 'Rational and Sane' level down to the much-more-likely 0.0%.

So ic'm an 100%er (+/- 0.3%(!

Wait, are you saying all the rational and sane posts were made by newbies? That doesn't seem rational enough...

[buffygirl]

I must aloft! (yes, arch-cardinals can fly)- Later!

[AionArap]

[mscha]

This shows the sea level rise since just after the first zoom&pan, 140-ish newp⁠іx ago (or 4 days and 4 hours on the Outside)․ The second pan w⁠as horizontal only, so ca⁠n be ignored for this purpose․
As always: green pixels w⁠ere added, red removed․

Wow, that looks like 3D version.

І just tried it with а pair of red/blue 3D glasses. All it gives yo⁠u іs а headache.

[Helper]

ic must aloft! (yes, arch-cardinals tin fly)- Later!

Randall-speed!

[rmsgrey]

He said posts that seemed rational and sane, not posts that were rational and sane - which makes 0.3% seem a little low - one of the side-effects of reading this thread is that, after a while, it starts seeming rational after all...

[StratPlayer]

Wait, be eow saying all the rational and sane posts be-did made by newbies? That doth not seem rational enough.FULL STOPFULL STOP

Well, I used to think I was rational and sane Before Time, but now after reading this whole thread, I'm no longer sure. Hell, I'm NOT -- I am damn certain I'm permanently damaged psychologically...

[Helper]

He say-did posts that [ic]seemed[/ic] rational and sane, not posts that [ic]be-did[/ic] rational and sane - which maketh 0.3% seem an little low - an of the side-effects of reading this needle-pulled thing be that, after an while, it starts seeming rational after all.FULL STOPFULL STOP

I'd imagine apparent rationality approaches 100% over time.

[HAL9000]

This shows the sea level rise since just after the first zoom&pan, 140-ish newp⁠іx ago (or 4 days and 4 hours on the Outside)․ The second pan w⁠as horizontal only, so ca⁠n be ignored for this purpose․
As always: green pixels w⁠ere added, red removed․
[img]<snip>[/img]

Wow, that looks like 3D version.

І just tried it with а pair of red/blue 3D glasses. All it gives yo⁠u іs а headache.

I hate 3D stuff. It gives me a headache.
http://xkcd.com/880/

[azule]

І just tried it with а pair of red/blue 3D glasses. All it gives yo⁠u іs а headache.

Great, now look at the sun* with polarized 3d glasses, tell us your findings.












*note: do not!! sue-proof

[bigcrag92]

This shows the sea level rise since just after the first zoom&pan, 140-ish newp⁠іx ago (or 4 days and 4 hours on the Outside)․ The second pan w⁠as horizontal only, so ca⁠n be ignored for this purpose․
As always: green pixels w⁠ere added, red removed․
[img]<snip>[/img]

Wow, that looks like 3D version.

І just tried it with а pair of red/blue 3D glasses. All it gives yo⁠u іs а headache.

ic hate 3D stuff. It gives me an headache.
http://xkcd.com/880/

you need a pair of these http://www.2d-glasses.com/

[azule]

I hate 3D stuff. It gives me an headache.
http://xkcd.com/880/

Must be hard for you with just the one eye.